How Caffeine During Pregnancy Can Damage Your Baby

re: How Caffeine During Pregnancy Can Damage Your Baby

LoriSmi — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:18:52 GMT

Both of my grandparents were heavy coffee drinkers (more than 6 cups per day) and both smoked. They had 4 very healthy boys who grew up to become smokers and coffee drinkers. My mom also smoked and drank coffee. My grandma did die at ae 68 of cancer (ran in her family) and my grandpa lived to be 91. My dad is 73, still smokes and drinks coffee and is in excellent health. My mom, too. All 3 of my uncles are in their 60's and all are healthy and hale. No heart issues. No health problems. All in great shape. All drink coffee. My father-in-law is in his mid 60's and he drinks a ton of coffee. My mother-in-law drank coffee and smoked while pregnant with all 4 of her kids, and all are healthy with no problems. (I am 49, my husband 45).

These articles need to be taken with a grain of salt. Man/woman has drank coffee since it was discovered. People have drank tea, coffee, and chocolate for generations.

A lack of selenium in the diet will cause a perfectly helthy person to fall over dead with a heart attack and die instantly. Perhaps it isn't caffienne but the lack of minerals in ou soils and food that are causing heart and other health problems. I just don't buy this article.

Coffee can make some sick when pregnant. One of my friends would feel nauseous if she smelled anything mint while pregnant. Another couldn't abide the smell of meat cooking. How are these items unhealthy? Eggs cooking made me feel ill in the early months with my 1st child, are eggs bad for you? I could eat them again once I was about 5 months on. So, aversion to foods while pregnant does NOT necessarily mean that food is bad for you!

And, we are not mice! :)

re: How Caffeine During Pregnancy Can Damage Your Baby

Kerstin Miyashiro — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:01:09 GMT

During my pregnancies I drank coffee. My children were born average size and are now adults and healthy. My mother also drank coffee being pregnant with me (back in the 50's).

However, soy really caused in big problem in my daughter. She could not take regular formula so I gave her soy milk when baby. At 4 yrs. old she developed J.R.A. (immune disorder) and in her teenage years, she did not develop a menstrual cycle. She also had others friends with the same disorder and asked if they had been raised on soy. Yes, they had! My daughter recovered from the J.R.A. within a year, and her menstrual cycle did not began until age of 24, when we first discovered the cause of her hormonal imbalance, soy! I talked to Dr. Kaayla Daniel and she gave me a couple of ideas of how to cure my daughter, such as taking "virgin coconut oil" and a wholesome natural diet and within 3 months my daughter finally began to ovulate. Since then, any soy product is forbidden in our house.

It is my belief that why so many women are infertile today - soy in every food product. I have also met many women who drank soy during pregnancies and delivered boys with inverted sex organ. One of my friends is a doctor and he tells me that is it pretty common nowdays, but apparently no one is questioning what the mother ate or drank during the pregnancy.

re: How Caffeine During Pregnancy Can Damage Your Baby

osoozzq — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:28:18 GMT

This is very true. While in my 2nd pregnancy (around 1993) it was an extremely hot day. I started drinking a 32oz glass of iced tea and sipped it all day. Woke up at 1am with contractions (I was in the 7th month). I was dehydrated because of the caffeine and thus went into early labor. Spent the rest of the pregnancy on bed rest and she was born 2 weeks early. I think caffeine is much more dangerous than the FDA lets on.

re: How Caffeine During Pregnancy Can Damage Your Baby

curious7 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:02:48 GMT

Caffeine is bad for anyone pregnant or no. Prostate, and breast cancers come to mind when I think of this toxin. See http;//search.johnhopkins.org Even mainstream medcine is aboard on this one.

re: How Caffeine During Pregnancy Can Damage Your Baby

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re: How Caffeine During Pregnancy Can Damage Your Baby

LucieGS — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:27:39 GMT

When I became pregnant I couldn't stand the smell of coffee, and I was a coffee drinker. I threw it up if I had some. Maybe it was trying to tell me something.

re: How Caffeine During Pregnancy Can Damage Your Baby

Keith Lurie — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:03:51 GMT

Mice are not humans. While animal testing may be useful, it can never be considered 'proof'

Not to say that coffee is not harmfull (in excess) as is everything else.

The secret to hassle free health - Variety and moderation.

re: How Caffeine During Pregnancy Can Damage Your Baby

OnlyTruth — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:54:10 GMT

Back in my child-bearing days, a doctor wouldn't see you until you were 3 months along - I think it was due to the inaccuracy of the test if administered any sooner than that. However, I always knew the minute I became pregnant because I could no longer stand the smell of coffee, let alone drink it! And I loved coffee!

I think it's amazing that my body protected my four children from something we had not yet learned was a hazard to the newly forming babies.

re: How Caffeine During Pregnancy Can Damage Your Baby

Islander — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:06:50 GMT

I agree that caffeine and pregnancy don't mix. But back when I was making my four babies, who knew? I was a coffee drinker and [gasp] a smoker. Low birth weight was never a problem (ask my 10-pound baby!) All four are healthy adults, and my two boys have their father's tall lean physique.

P.S. I limit myself to one cup of java a day, and I've been smoke-free for over two years.

re: How Caffeine During Pregnancy Can Damage Your Baby

Mariehelm — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:22:28 GMT

hmmmmmmm..... I had 3 ten pound babies who were and still are in perfect health. (Now adults) I ate chocolate like crazy and was addicted to diet coke. Sad to say, but I am so blessed that they are okay. I had no idea back then what I ingested could affect them like that. I stopped smoking and did not drink alcohol or take drugs, but chocolate was my "drug".

re: Caffeine During Pregnancy Can Damage Your Child's Heart

Aaltrude — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:50:57 GMT

The western world must have a very high proportion of heart damaged individuals given the high rate of coffee and tea drinking.